New for Fall 2000...

Written for candidates, elected and appointed government officials as well as concerned citizens in small cities, towns, and villages. This book is an indispensable tool for improving local government.

If you want local government to be the best it can be, William D. Coplin and Carol Dwyer will outfit you with the tools you need to get started. Whether your goal is making you assessor's office accurate and citizen-friendly or ensuring that your police department is cost-effective, you will learn how to ask the right questions and encourage necessary change. In accessible, straightforward language, this book introduces the bare essentials for good government in the areas of finance, public works, parks and recreation, police, assessment, building codes, emergency medical services, personnel, and even Web site development.

The book contains:

• Checklists with 60 Bare Essentials for good governance in nine areas
   

• More than 255 guidelines found in Beyond Bare Essentials
   

• Simple illustrations of how you can use benchmarking to make decisions
   

• User-ready surveys to obtain citizen feedback

William D. Coplin, PhD., is Professor of Public Affairs and Director of the Public Affairs Program of the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. 
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Carol Dwyer, MA, is Director of the Community Benchmarks Program of the Maxwell School.

Paper $20.00    ISBN# 0-9702864-0-6